- [Interviewer] I heard all royals speak with their mouths closed. - That's true. It took me ages to unlock this jaw. Yeah, it was very,
everyone speaks like that. (bright piano music) - [Interviewer] Tell me about the one bet you're glad you lost. - I mean, I'm not a betting man, but I betted against myself
for the Emmys, it's true. I put a bet on Billy Porter to win, 'cause I loved Billy in that show, - Josh O'Connor "The Crown." (audience cheering) - I think I was relieved that it was over and scared about having to go up on stage. After I won the Emmy, I came down holding it, and I hugged my friend, Zach, and I struck myself in
the head with the Emmy. So in any picture of me at the Emmys, I am bleeding from the eye. But I mean I'm sort of, I guess I am glad I lost
that bet. (laughing) Yeah, as things go, it's
probably a good thing, yeah. - [Interviewer] What's
the one "Crown" episode you're most proud of? - I think probably series
three, episode six, which was my first-ever episode. I know why people think
I was cool for the role, and they're not wrong. It's because I have ears
that protrude for my head, and Prince Charles, the
real Prince Charles, who my character has a likeness to, has a likeness to my ears, and so I think maybe that
was what that was about. - [Interviewer] What's the one moment that made you realize you were famous? - I guess when you get stopped
in the street by strangers? I did have an experience recently, and I am conscious that I don't want to embarrass the poor person
who was working at Starbucks, and they were staring at
me and then they said, "I refuse any longer to be blamed "for this grotesque misalliance," which is a line I say at
the end of "The Crown." And he just said it to me. Very strange, but very, I think nice? - [Interviewer] What's the
trick to delivering that line? - Get really annoyed. (laughing) Get really angry. It's probably my favorite
scene to do in "The Crown," because it was me and Emma who's like one of my great friends, and just shouting each
other, it was great. - I refuse to be blamed any longer for this grotesque misalliance. - [Interviewer] What's
the one tip you have for speaking like a royal? - Okay, so there's a good tip, which is if you want to
say yes, then you say ears. I learned this from, I
think from Claire Foy. The queen says, I think, "Ears." Ears is her way of saying yes. So you just say ears as
in these, and it works. - [Interviewer] What's one new skill you've had to learn for a role? - I learned tennis for "Challengers." And I say I learned tennis, I learned how to look
reasonably good at tennis. - [Interviewer] How does one
look reasonably good at tennis? - [Josh] Copy a really
actually good tennis player. - I want you to be my coach. - I feel like I could
convincingly trick someone to think I could serve, but I mean I rarely hit the ball. I rarely make contact
with racket and balls. I shot a tweener, which is what, it's a shot where you hit
the ball through your legs, but that was pure fluke, and
it worked out really well. But that was total fluke. I'll never repeat that. - [Interviewer] Was it caught on camera? - No. I think it was caught on
someone's camera phone, but I don't know. Maybe Zendaya's, I don't know. - [Interviewer] Say the one
word you still can't get right with an American accent. - Oh, well... (laughing) Ham, hamburger is quite hard. Hamburger. Hamburger. Ham, ham, hamburger. It's just quite hard to say. - [Interviewer] What's
the one American thing you've grown to love? - IHOP. I really actually do love it. I've had some of the
greatest culinary experiences have been at IHOP in my life. I didn't know, I thought it was a bank, so, or an insurance company. Then I went in, (sniffing) discovered it was the
International House of Pancakes, and ever since then I've loved it. I had eggs and potato hash and french toast with blueberries. I've never had anything else. I go for the same order every time. - [Interviewer] What's the one movie that is underrated, in your opinion? - Well, it's a movie that
lots of people really like, but I think "Superbad" is
one of the great movies of our time, and sometimes I think we
consider it as a comedy, and therefore, by the by, but it's one of my favorite movies. - [Interviewer] What's the one
scene you think about often? - Michael Cera and Jonah
Hill at the end of the film are having a sleepover,
and Jonah Hill goes, "Doopee doop doop" on Michael Cera's nose, and it's beautiful, it's masterful. - [Interviewer] Who's one character you've always wanted to play? - I think probably I would
love to play Willy Wonka, but like a dark Willy Wonka. I know they've just made a Wonka film with Timothee Chalamet, but I would really like to play a sort of darker version of him. I think Gene Wilder's
version of him is very dark, and so it's not dark in
the sort of sinister, necessarily, way. It's just that I think
he's a really angry man. You know, these kids win a competition to go around a chocolate factory and they all seemingly disappear. I mean, it's sort of mad and dark, so I think I'd just play the truth of it. - [Interviewer] What's
the one cast tradition you want to repeat? - I made this film, "La Chimera." We would go to someone's house, and then we'd sit in the garden, and they would have cooked something and we'd just eat together. It's very Italian, actually. For them, it's really normal. It's just for me it's a
really exciting thing. We're renting a movie
theater out here a lot, where we are right now, and we
watch a movie of our choice. - [Interviewer] What did
you choose the last time? - I chose "Paddington 2." I love marmalade, yeah. I'm a big fan of thick-cut marmalade, yes. (bright piano music)
